Phil Nadel is Co-Founder of Barbara Corcoran Ventures and a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with many years of experience building rapidly growing companies. In this guest post, Phil highlights 12 KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) that founders must measure,...

So, you’ve started a company and hit the ground running with a group of happy customers. Now it’s time to raise investment in your startup, so you start to screen investors. Or do you? If you’re like many first-time CEO’s, the answer is that...

As I wrote in an earlier post, the first and most critical step in getting a deal done is to create a target investor list. But once that’s done the next question I hear from entrepreneurs is, “How do I get a meeting with high-quality investors?” The...

If you’ve started a business or are thinking of doing so, here’s an alarming statistic for you. Up to 85% of businesses fail because they run out of cash. If you want to be part of the 15% that succeeds, you’ll need to be smart about how you raise...